Volume-forms and Minimal Action Principles in Affine Manifolds
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Through the analyses of volume-forms in differentiable manifolds, it is shown that the usual way of defining minimal action principles for field theory on curved spacetimes is not appropriate on non-riemannian manifolds. An alternative approach, based in a new volume-form, is proposed and confronted with the standard one. The new volume element is explicitly used in the study of Einstein-Cartan theory of gravity and its relation to string theory, in connection with some recent results on the subject.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993